Discernment of An Organism's Sex
- Prenatal sex discernment, prenatal testing for the discernment of the fetal sex in humans
- Postnatal sex discernment, discernment of sex by inspecting the genitalia when a baby is delivered
- Sex assignment, a human social act carrying the assumption that the assigned person will then have a corresponding gender identity
- Sexing, used by biologists and agricultural workers to discern the sex of livestock or other animals
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“True Friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance. A want of discernment cannot be an ingredient in it.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“fundamentally an organism has conscious mental states if and only if there is something that it is like to be that organism—something it is like for the organism.”
—Thomas Nagel (b. 1938)
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